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On this day: July 7

2013: Andy Murray wins the Wimbledon men's singles title, becoming the first British man to do so since Fred Perry 77 years before. His victory over Novak Djokovic came a year after falling to Roger Federer in the 2012 Wimbledon final.

2011: Hall of Fame baseball manager Dick Williams, who led the Oakland Athletics to back-to-back World Series titles in 1972 and 1973, dies of ruptured aortic aneurysm at age 82 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Williams also managed for five other teams, leading his squads to three American League pennants and one National League pennant. He is one of seven managers to win pennants in both major leagues and only the second manager to lead three franchises to the World Series. He and Lou Piniella are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. He also played for seven different teams between 1951 and 1964.

2011: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final movie based on the wizard fantasy books, premieres in London, England. With a worldwide box office of $1.3 billion, the film would become the highest grossing film of 2011, the highest grossing film in the "Harry Potter" series, and the ninth film overall to gross more than $1 billion.

2006: English singer-songwriter and musician Syd Barrett, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 60 in Cambridge, England. Barrett was the band's original lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter, but left the group in April 1968 amid speculations of mental illness exacerbated by drug use.

2006: The action-adventure sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" opens in theaters. The movie, the second in the film franchise inspired by the Walt Disney theme park ride of the same name, starred Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. It would set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million in the United States, and it was, at the time, the fastest film ever to gross more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

2005: A series of four explosions on London's transport system kills 56 people, including four alleged suicide bombers, and injures more than 700 others. Three of the bombs exploded on London Underground trains while the fourth exploded on a double-decker bus.

2000: Race car driver Kenny Irwin Jr. dies as a result of injuries suffered in a crash during a practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. Irwin had driven in all three NASCAR national touring series, and had two total victories, both in the Craftsman Truck Series. He was 30 years old.

1990: Martina Navratilova wins a record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon.

1987: Lt. Col. Oliver North begins his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling a joint Congressional committee that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization.

1985: Boris Becker becomes the youngest man ever to win Wimbledon at age 17 years, 227 days. Becker beat No. 8 seed Kevin Curren 6–3, 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 to also become the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon singles title.

1981: U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She would be confirmed on Sept. 21 and sworn in on Sept. 25 to replace the retiring Potter Stewart.

1980: The original lineup of Led Zeppelin gives its final show, at Eissporthalle in Berlin, Germany. The concert was the last date of the band's 14-date tour through Europe, the last tour they would take before drummer John Bonham's death on Sept. 25, 1980.

1980: Figure skater Michelle Kwan, a two-time (1998 and 2002) Olympic medalist, a five-time World champion, and a nine-time U.S. champion, is born in Torrance, California.

1973: Actress Veronica Lake, known for her roles in movies such as "Sullivan's Travels," "This Gun for Hire" and "The Glass Key," dies from hepatitis and acute renal failure at the age of 50 in Burlington, Vermont.

1971: Ub Iwerks, the animator and cartoonist who co-created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney, dies of a myocardial infarction at age 70 in Burbank, California.

1967: The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released in the United Kingdom. The song would go straight to No. 1, where it would remain for three weeks. Upon its release in the United States on July 17, it also would climb to No. 1.

1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. The bill allowed Alaska to become the 49th U.S. state on Jan. 3, 1959.

1954: Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ in Memphis, Tennessee, plays his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." The response from listeners was so overwhelming that DJ Dewey Phillips played the song repeatedly for the last two hours of his show before interviewing Presley live on the air.

1952: The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop's Rock off Cornwall, England, on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world. The luxury passenger liner completed the eastbound crossing in three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. It also broke the westbound crossing record by returning to America in three days, 12 hours and 12 minutes.

1949: Actress Shelley Duvall, best known for movies such as "The Shining" (pictured), "Popeye," "Annie Hall" and "3 Women," is born in Houston, Texas.

1946: Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute that offered support to Italian immigrants to the United States.

1946: Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills, California, neighborhood during its maiden flight. The crash destroyed several homes and left Hughes seriously injured, including a crushed collarbone, multiple cracked ribs, crushed chest with collapsed left lung, and numerous third-degree burns.

1940: Ringo Starr, the singer-songwriter and musician best known as the drummer for The Beatles, is born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, England.

1930: Scottish writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, dies of a heart attack at age 71 in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.

1928: Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1927: Singer-songwriter Charlie Louvin, best known as one half of the country music duo The Louvin Brothers, is born Charles Elzer Loudermilk in Henagar, Alabama. Charlie and Ira Louvin, whose hit songs included "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby," "The Knoxville Girl," "When I Stop Dreaming" and "Cash on the Barrelhead," started off as gospel artists and became Grand Ole Opry members in 1955. Charlie Louvin died of pancreatic cancer at age 83 on Jan. 26, 2011.

1927: Carl "Doc" Severinsen, the composer and trumpeter best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," is born in Arlington, Oregon.

1911: The United States, Great Britain, Japan and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

1907: Science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, known for novels such as "Starship Troopers," "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress," is born in Butler, Missouri. Heinlein, seen here signing autographs at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City, died of emphysema and heart failure at age 80 on May 8, 1988.

1906: Baseball pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the first player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame based upon his play in the Negro leagues, is born in Mobile, Alabama. Paige began his professional career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League, one of nine Negro league teams he played for before making his MLB debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1948 at the age of 42, making the oldest rookie to play in MLB at the age of 42. He also played in the MLB for the St. Louis Browns and Kansas City Athletics. He died of a heart attack at age 75 on June 8, 1982.

1899: Film director George Cukor, best known for directing movies such as "The Philadelphia Story," "Gaslight," "Adam's Rib," "Born Yesterday," "A Star Is Born" and "My Fair Lady," is born in New York City. Cukor won an Academy Award for Best Director for "My Fair Lady" and was nominated another four times in his career. He died of a heart attack at the age of 83 on Jan. 24, 1983.

1898: U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1890: German confectioner and businessman Henri Nestlé, the founder of Nestlé, dies of a heart attack at age 75 in Glion, Switzerland.

1887: Painter Marc Chagall, one of the most successful artists of the 20th century and the last surviving master of European modernism, is born Moishe Shagal near the city of Vitebsk, Belarus, which was then part of the Russian Empire. Chagall is best known as a painter, but created works in virtually every artistic medium, including book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

1865: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt, four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, are hanged at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. Surratt was the first woman executed by the United States government.

1863: Four days after the Battle of Gettysburg, the government of the United States begins to carry out a mandatory draft for the first time. Controversially, a man could avoid service by paying $300 for an exemption.

1860: Composer Gustav Mahler is born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire. Mahler was known as one of the leading conductors of his generation, but his own music only gained wide popularity, after periods of relative neglect, following his death.

1456: A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

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